IBM Business Process Management Journal

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The summer 2015 issue of the IBM Business Process
Management Journal gathers together content that
helps you improve the experience for end users of your IBM
Business Process Manager process applications, focusing on
Process Portal, dashboards, and coaches. Content covers all
phases of designing and using interfaces, from how you can
design your business processes in the very early brainstorming
phases by combining an affinity diagram approach with IBM
Blueworks Live, to how you can customize coaches for your
particular organization, and how you can integrate them into a
mobile environment. This issue also includes a comparison of
capabilities of runtime monitoring dashboards in both IBM
Business Monitor and IBM Business Process Manager, and tips
for troubleshooting browser migration issues.

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by Kip Harris and Sameh
Nasef Solution architects can add custom monitoring to
an IBM Business Process Manager solution with either
the tools built into IBM Business Process Manager or
by adding the IBM Business Monitor product to the
solution. This tutorial explores these two
alternatives by showing how to develop custom
dashboards for a sample business scenario. It
discusses findings and makes recommendations on
selecting the best fit for your
situation.

In this
issue

by Adeel Javed
Start off designing your processes
by capturing requirements from brainstorming. Affinity
mapping is a valuable way for analysts to elicit
requirements from business users in a collocated
setting. With IBM Blueworks Live, a real-time
collaboration tool, analysts and business users can
make affinity mapping collaborative in a virtual
environment. Later, it can be imported into IBM
Business Process Manager.

by Robert H.
Grant There are many ways to adjust coaches for your
branding requirements. Learn about IBM Business
Process Manager approaches, focusing on methods more
appropriate for beginners, such as toolkits that use
the pre-built schemes on pages. The Color toolkit
calculates new colors for a page based on a single
input. The Branding toolkit adds banners, logos, and
backgrounds rapidly to coaches with little
effort.

by Robert H.
Grant Learn approaches to customize coaches for your
organization, such as using included files, creating
third-party controls, and linking the controls with
the REST protocol. Also learn tips and tricks for
overcoming difficulties when creating coaches.

by Ganesh Nagalingam Learn how to integrate IBM
Business Process Manager Advanced V8.5.X with a
hybrid MobileFirst application using the IBM
MobileFirst Platform Foundation V6.3 through a Secure
Sockets Layer.

by Gordon T.
Sefchik If you migrated to Microsoft Internet Explorer
10 from an earlier version of Internet Explorer, your
end users of IBM Business Process Manager process
applications might encounter rendering or stability
issues in the Process Portal and heritage coaches.
Remediation typically requires application of
appropriate product fixes and manual adjustments to
the heritage coach HTML layout properties through the
coach designer. This tutorial highlights the nature of
these issues to assist your planning for migration of
process applications to Internet Explorer
10.

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